Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational…

“Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to call in…

— Immanuel Kant

“This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men that…

— Richard P. Feynman

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

— Alain de Botton

“In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent”

— Ambrose Bierce

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or…

— George Santayana

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

— George Santayana

My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own…

— Ayn Rand

America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits…

— Suzanne Gordon

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…

— Tim Wise

But jealousy... it's a strange thing. So much more powerful then I would have thought. And irrational!

— Edward Cullen

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

— Martin Rees

There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…

— Noam Chomsky

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

— Christopher Hitchens

“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.”

— Robertson Davies

It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like…

— Dan Ariely